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leaven

German, verb

leaven is a German verb meaning “to leave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does leaven mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    slangto leave

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of leaven

  • leavt present singular third-person
  • leavte past
  • geleaved participle past
  • geleavt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • sein auxiliary

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is leaven in German?

leaven appears about once in every 22 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).